Goa nightclub owners offer Rs 15 lakh ex gratia to kin of people killed in fire; HC seeks reply

PANAJI: (october 1) The Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked the families of the 25 people, who were killed in a devastating fire at a Goa nightclub in December, to respond to an offer by its owners to pay Rs 15 lakh each as ex gratia compensation.

A division bench of the HC in Goa recorded the statement made on behalf of Saurav and Gaurav Luthra, brothers and owners of the fire-hit nightclub Birch by Romeo Lane, that they were willing to pay Rs 15 lakh to each of the 25 victims’ families.

The bench comprising Justices Valmiki Menezes and Amit Jamsandekar directed that the victims’ families be asked whether they were willing to accept the proposed compensation.